idol wrote:So, the crest seems dead, very dead.I see in the sprint you mention about different arena with different restrictions,but instead of spreading people out, why not help new comers.

Is it possible to let veterans go back to crest, but give them limits on files?such as 2* or below only, or even shielded cards only.

Yes please I have mentioned this some times already in my posts. If you manage to change the exp script a bit for crest and let us high lvls go back there with limited fm card pools or something, it would be very helpful for the newbees (OR as alternative, make the newbee fights in the new arena granted tb, but still that dont solve the issue they would lvl too fast)

Also I would like to point out that if you create a 1*2* arena the only thing it would be good for is, that finally people understand, how many field/combo oriented decks are relying on a few ridiculusly strong cards to work which balance out the overall weakness of the cards and how field oriented decks seriosuly lack good stalling soul alternatives for rasam. Do mermaids, serpent, en work without their high rarity cards? How does lawtia rush and wk perform without good sp drain souls? For me it looks like this would be just a bash fest of standalone units and bigs.So I would say if you seriosuly consider creating an other arena (especially while we are so few and crest problem still existing) pease consider to change its rules lets say every 2 months or so, else it will be just an other boring meta pretty soon.

I'm putting the achievement engine online in test - but have two bugs that need to be fixed first.

Making custom arenas will be a high priority of future sprints. Sprints are written in stone once they are started (barring critical bugs like the UD issues) but this will most likely happen within the next couple sprints.

CSQuared and Alex are still working on the avatar manager. Am going to ask them for an update tomorrow.

Tomorrow morning is sifting through dozens of resumes as my cats get spayed.

GGG made some real nice stuff for the new advertising site.

Then doing stuff to make sure financials match up.

Then meeting other developers to network. Most importantly, Seth Sivak will be there. Hopefully will have a chance to pick his brain.

If there's time before I go to bed I'm going to automate clearing battles every friday.

I may change the 6:30am downtime to a weekly thing instead of a daily thing.

Meanwhile various members of Vadym's staff are improving the infrastructure as requested. Not sure what we'd do without them. Also improving inventory management and proactive risk notification (such as getting an sms if a server's about to run out of HD space).

We've got a new developer to help us with architectural design. Worked with him in the past on enterprise level stuff (we wrote software to monitor the health of various multi-billion dollar financial accounts together).

This is separate from the dozens of resumes I have to shift through today.

As for long term plans for C# devs, the plan is to have alex transition over once he is done with the avatar manager stuff.